Graduation Requirements Frequently Asked Questions

These FAQs address many of the implementation details for the new Ohio graduation requirements. The October 2014 FAQs addresses the graduation points system and a list of tests student can take in lieu of Ohio’s tests. The January 2015 FAQs addresses the automatic test exemption points.

Brookville student awarded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship
Grace Klosterman, a Project Lead The Way biomedical senior from Brookville, is one of 250 students nationally and one of five youth in Ohio accepted into the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship program. Grace is receiving elective credits from Johann-Michael-Sailer-Gymnasium, a high school near the village of Blindheim, Germany, while finishing up English and religion classes remotely to graduate next spring from Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School in Dayton.

Introduced under a Presidential initiative in 1983, the exchange program aims to strengthen U.S.-German relations through cultural understanding. More information about youth cultural immersion programs can be obtained at www.afsusa.org.

A local board of education may adopt a resolution that its district will not provide career-technical education students enrolled in grades 7 and 8. The Ohio Department of Education must receive that resolution by Sept. 30, 2015 in order to grant a waiver to the district for 2015-2016 school year.